Ndakinna* 2010
Form: classical guitar
Particularities: cut-away, cantilevered fingerboard, multi-scale fret system (fan fret)
Back & sides: cherry
Soundboard: red spruce
Neck: butternut
Fingerboard & bridge: curly hop hornbeam
Rosette & headstock veneer: cherry burl
Binding & perfling: all wood
Nut & saddle: bone
Scale lenght 6th string: 26 1/4”
Scale lenght 1st string: 25 5/8”
Lower bout widht: 14 7/8”
Body depth: 4″
Nut widht: 2″
String spacing at the bridge: 2 1/2“
** Ndakinna, which is from abenaki old dialect in North America, means “our earth” or “homeland”.
Click for video : Charles Gauvin La Guitare
Montreal guitarist Charles Gauvin (Mains libres, Forestare) playing an excerpt from a classical piece in a short video from LaGuitare.com, july 2010.